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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Bride of Lammermoor by Walter Scott: reach the gate at the extremity of the avenue. The one coach was
green, the other blue; and not the green and blue chariots in the
circus of Rome or Constantinople excited more turmoil among the
citizens than the double apparition occasioned in the mind of the
Lord Keeper.
We all remember the terrible exclamation of the dying
profligate, when a friend, to destroy what he supposed the
hypochondriac idea of a spectre appearing in a certain shape at a
given hour, placed before him a person dressed up in the manner
he described. "Mon Dieu!" said the expiring sinner, who, it
seems, saw both the real and polygraphic apparition, "il y en a
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